| Description |
1 online resource |
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Africa Now |
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Africa Now
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| Contents |
Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Golden assemblages: security and development in Tanzania's gold mines; 2 Failed, weak or fake state? The role of private security in Somalia; 3 Private security beyond the private sector: community policing and secret societies in Sierra Leone; 4 The underbelly of global security: Sierra Leonean ex-militias in Iraq; 5 Who do you call? Private security policing in Durban, South Africa; 6 Security Sector Reform as Trojan Horse? The new security assemblages of privatized military training in Liberia |
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7 Political becoming and non-state emergence in Kenya's security sector: Mungiki as security operator8 Parapluies politiques: the everyday politics of private security in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Epilogue: African assemblages of private security; About the editors and contributors; Index |
| Summary |
A comprehensive analysis of the rise of private security providers across Africa, and its implications for African states and societies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 22, 2017) |
| Subject |
Private security services -- Africa
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Mercenaries.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Private security services
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Higate, Paul, editor
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Utas, Matas, editor
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| ISBN |
9781786990273 |
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178699027X |
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9781786990280 |
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1786990288 |
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9781786990297 |
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1786990296 |
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1786990261 |
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9781786990266 |
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